Blythe Plenderleith
Blythe Plenderleith studied BA Hons Sculpture and Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art (2017-2021). After achieving a first in her BA, Blythe was awarded The Cass Art Scholarship to complete her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2021-2023), where she also gained a distinction for her thesis examining notions of perfection and making-do. Most recently, Blythe exhibited at the RSA New Contemporaries 2023, Edinburgh, where she was the recipient of the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Award 2023.
Blythe’s research and practice observes small town traditions of farming, harvesting, quilting, barn raising and furniture making thus aiming to redefine standards in an age of mass-production and cheap imitations. Relishing the decorative arts of America as well as the traditions and techniques taken from her Scottish-American heritage, Blythe probes the terms craftsmanship, twee, needs-must and improving, questioning small town living and paying tribute to its historical matrix; necessity is the mother of all invention.
Blythe has recently worked in collaboration with Battersea and Wandsworth Council to ‘take over’ Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form (Memorial) site in Battersea Park, London (2022) where her concept was developed, made and constructed for temporary display while Single Form (Memorial) was on loan.
Currently showing at the RWA 170 Annual Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol from 9 Sep 2023 - 14 Jan 2024.
Recent Interviews
https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/artist-interview-blythe-plenderleith-rca-cass-scholarship-graduate-2023/
Contact
blytheplenderleith@gmail.com
07954038271
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